Posted on 08/05/2023 6:15:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This essay makes me not want to see Oppenheimer that much more.
Saw it last week. Very disappointed. I’ve done extensive reading on the Manhattan Project and the people who made it happen. The movie tried to assume that Oppenheimer was brilliant without any supporting narrative beyond a short bit about his work on black holes. Total waste of three hours.
So what? Even if they only wanted to steal power using legal electoral means, it's still a great theft of individual freedom and an exultation of the state over the person. They're still communists. It's the actual goal that's repugnant regardless of what their chosen means may be.
It went on and on and on. So dull. Endless hearings about Strauss, for no apparent reason but to Garner Downey Jr. A supporting Oscar nom.
Even the nuke blast test was anticlimactic. Would have made a better mini series or something on the history channel.
Absolutely amazing film. Brian Dennehey played Leslie Groves. It was a well cast movie. Even if you aren't a nuclear physicist it's very easy to follow the technical developments along.
I saw the movie a few days ago and I thought it was ok. I agree it soft pedals communism as all the movies I’ve seen about the Manhattan Project seem to do. It was no surprise. I’m sure it will get some kind of Oscar. Hollywood loves its commie martyrs.
“Absolutely amazing film. Brian Dennehey played Leslie Groves.”
I loved that movie. Of course, I have a thing for Brian Dennehy and his acting.
The story of Oppenheimer’s rise, fall, and resurrection is, like the man, extremely complex. The film compresses the voluminous American Prometheus book reasonably well, but Nolan had to jam a lot of short dialog lines over Goransson’s score and it would have helped to have closed captions.
The use of IMAX and the use of black and white for the Strauss storyline didn’t really add much to the film and seemed to be superfluous.
It is clear from the book that American Communism was a naive club for useful idiots including Oppenheimer until he tried to negotiate with Stalin’s reps on a nuclear treaty and they gave him the finger.
Communism was a proxy for liberal causes like civil rights, labor rights, and the anti-Fascist Spanish Republic. Russia was viewed as our ally against Hitler in WWII rather than the murderous gulag that Stalin was actually running.
Most, but not all, of the true believers realized how stupid they had been to join the party, but when the Cold War started, they were caught on the wrong side of history and paid a terrible price.
I saw it the other night.
It was 3 hours.
It was loud ( sound levels were all over the place).
They made the poor russkies out to be the country relations who we didn’t want to share.
Did I mention it was 3 hours long?
I saw his movie Tenet a few years ago and I could barely make out what anyone was saying in that, either.
Despite the fact that the movie takes place after the Soviet Union’s testing of an atomic bomb, not a single word is mentioned about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and her brother David Greenglas all of whom were communists.
I liked the Batman movies, and Memento, but Dunkirk was horrible, and I guess I was too stupid for Inception and Tenet.
I sat near him in a restaurant once…..in Boston .
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A true movie about this subject would expose how the arch- Traitor fdr had red spies crawling all throuought the Government, and then call Joe McCarthy a hero.
I don’t understand all the ha-bub about this Oppenheimer movie. I saw the trailer when I saw “Sound of Freedom.” I felt like I pretty much saw the movie after seeing the trailer. I hate artsy-fartsy movies.
Giving a dead man a security clearance is nothing new for the far left freak show. There are a lot of jugheads working for FJB who could never have passed a security clearance 20 years ago. Does anyone really think the loony Sammy Brinson could have ever passed a real security clearance. I don’t think so.
I’m a big Nolan fan, so I did see it. It’s excellent technically and the performances are excellent. Frankly I’m surprised that Nolan treated communism with kid gloves. He’s supposed to be a conservative, and his past projects didn’t reveal any left wing biases. If anything, his Batman movies had conservative ideas. Bane and his movement represent a leftist mob similar to Antifa.
For his job, DH often takes between LA and San Fran. Sometimes Dennehy would be on those flights — scrunched in to one of those Southwest planes.
Is ANYBODY surprised by any of this? As soon as I heard of the making of this film I shook my head and wrote it off.
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